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Expect crowded conditions on the Broad Street Line around this time every day during the convention. | Photo: Ben Schumin
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SEPTA Overnight Trains a Hit: Ridership Up 40 to 59 Percent in First Full Weekend

Apparently, all those people who signed petitions asking SEPTA to run the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines all night really did prefer taking the train […]

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Feds Meet With SEPTA, Workers to Avoid Strike

Remember last week’s one-day strike by SEPTA’s Regional Rail workers? It shut down when President Obama created a federal mediation board to resolve the situation. Well: Today the […]

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SEPTA Talks with Unions for City, Suburban Transit Lines Stalled

While SEPTA Regional Rail trains are back to work thanks to an order by President Barack Obama, there is apparently no progress in talks between […]

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VIDEO: Man Punched at Trolley Stop

FOX 29 News Philadelphia | WTXF-TV Upper Darby Police say the so-called “Knockout Game” might be responsible for this video of a young man suddenly […]

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The Not-Quite SEPTA Strike: What They’re Saying

That didn’t last long. As we told you this weekend, President Obama signed an executive order Saturday that forces striking SEPTA Regional Rail engineers and electrical workers back on the […]

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Obama Orders SEPTA Strikers Back to Work

Regular Regional Rail train service to resume at the start of business on Sunday, June 15. — SEPTA (@SEPTA) June 15, 2014 Following a request […]

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UPDATE: SEPTA Regional Rail Is on Strike

UPDATE, Saturday morning: It’s official: Regional Rail service is suspended due to a service interruption. All other SEPTA service is operating. — SEPTA (@SEPTA) June […]

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3 Reasons Traveling in the Philly Region Is About to Hurt

The Philadelphia region is on the verge of experiencing some pretty big travel-related headaches. Three reasons, all of which may come to fruition this weekend:

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SEPTA 50: A Prehistory of our Much Beloved/Maligned Transit Agency

This year marks SEPTA’s golden anniversary, and this month, the agency will formally celebrate a half-century of keeping Philly moving. It’s done a pretty good […]

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SEPTA May Want to Provoke Strike Now

SEPTA may be trying to provoke a strike by regional rail workers now, the Inquirer reports, in an attempt to avoid a work stoppage in […]

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Man Killed by SEPTA Train; Manayunk Norristown is Delayed

  Newsworks reports: “A man in his twenties was fatally struck by a train on SEPTA’s Manayunk/Norristown regional-rail line just before 6:30 a.m. Monday. … […]

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SEPTA Engineers Vote to Strike

Philly.com reports: “By a 166-2 vote, SEPTA railroad engineers have authorized a strike, which could occur as early as June 14, unless President Obama appoints […]

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SEPTA’s New Payment Technology Will Be Called SEPTA Key

Lots of new developments coming out of SEPTA these days. There’s the new 24-hour SEPTA service that debuts on June 15th. There’s the covert text-to-911 […]

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6 Ways Philly Really Is a World-Class City

“After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt I would have given the world for a crooked street,” Charles Dickens wrote of […]

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SEPTA Engineers to Take Strike Vote

“Engineers who operate SEPTA Regional Rail trains will soon vote on authorizing a strike, the national office of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen […]